NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1528, 10 January 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[PER PRESS AGENCY.] Wellington, January 9. Tim City of Sydney, with the Loudon mails of the sth December, snilod from Sun Francisco for Auckland on the 23rd ult., contract date. [from the correspondent ov the press. 1 Auckland, January 9. Mr Shcchan arrives at Hamilton to-morrow, and proceeds overland on Mouday to the Thames, arriving on Tuesday. Timaru, January 9. At the sale of aejtjons on P. B. Luxmore's Marchweil estate, two and a half miles from Timaru, the average price was JJ22I per acre. The Timaru Harbor Board will have .£IOO,OOO still in hand after constructing the 300 ft. mole. Dunedin, January 9, The water supply shows signs of running short again. There is only twenty-seven feet in tbe reservoir, which willb rely last three weeks unless rain falls. Machinery is to be cut off at the end of the week. Invercargill, January 9. The poll for the waterworks loan will be taken to-morrow. There is some doubt as to whether the result will be favorable, the town Laving had such immunity from fire and sickness for a long timo past. [S||»<'«*ial Wire,] Auckland. January 9. The drapers and grocers close on Saturday at two o'clock. One or two drapers still hold out, but over 3000 have signed for the Siturday halfholiday. A man named John Sullivan was arrested this afternoon on a charge of inciting the railway laborers and others employed on the Ohaupo railway line, to strike, He was ringleader in a movement which was not brought to a successful issue. He came down to town this morning, and obtained employment at one of the botols, but was cleverly traced by Detective ftratbearn, who captured bim shortly after the case was placed in his hands. GkahA3lstown t , Jauunry 9. The Taranaki cricket team beat tho Thames by 11 runs. The game was decided by Hie fir-t innings in favor of the visitors. The Thainng men were inclined to make a statu! in the second innings, only two wickets going for 50 ra"J» when the wickets wew dwvu

Scarlet fever broke out in a family here yesterday. The local Board of Health ordered their isolation. , An infant died of sunstroke on board the steamer Eotomahana from Auckland to the Thames. It is understood that the Government will at once call for tenders for reclaiming the foreshore for the proposed railway line along the beach between Grahamstown and Shortland. Napier, January 9. A man who arrived in New Zealand by the ship City of Auckland was accidentally killed to-day at Papakura. He ,was in the employment of Mr Pardons, and went out to bring home a horse. By some means he got Ins arm entangled in the halter, and was afterwards found dead in the field. Wellington, January 9. At a committee meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, the ques ion of insufficiency of whart accommodation was introduced without nonce, and a long discussion ensued. A leading member of the Chamber said that through the dehyof the Wakatipu for one whole day he bad suffered a loss of £IOO, and he intimated that if a change were not introduced speedily, it was very possible that the U.S.S. Co. would tranship at some other port. Wo blame he said was to be attached to the Wellington Wharf officials, whose energy was generally recognised. A very pronounced feeling was evoked in discussing the action of the Government respecting the promised railway wharf, which was not considered satisfactory. A deputation of tho Chamber of Commerce waited upon the Mayor and laid the matter before him. Be promised to use his best endeavors to further the objects of the Chamber, and promised to bring the matter before the Council as soon as possible. Proposals were also entertained with the object of holding a monster meeting with the view of getting an expression of public opinion that might cause effect to be given to the wishes of the Chamber of Commerce. The Southmmster wreck still remains upon the reef not broken up. The Hyderabad has again been hedged ont and once more is in readiness for being towed off, should the wind serve. A memorial is being taken round for signature, with the object of establishing direct communication by telegraph between the fire brigade station and the police stations of the town, so that an alarm struck at one station will ring at the others immediately. In the case of Falloon for assaulting Murtagh, and Murtagh for assaulting Falloon, a nolle prosequi was entered by the Crown Prosecutor, on the ground that the dispute was one to decide by civil rather than criminal action. Carterton, January 9. An extensive bush fire is raging here. It started from the end of the clearing, and is burning next to the railway station. Several house are in imminent danger, The police and telegraph stations are also in considerable danger. Between twenty and thirty men are now trying to stop the progress of the flames, but so far in vain. The wind too is increasing. The police station took fire last night, but was extinguished. Oamaru, January 9. Mr Stout is expected to visit Oamaru in a few days, possibly accompanied by Mr Macandrew. At a County Council meeting to-day, Mr Thomson tabled a motion that members living a certain distance from Oamaru. say ten miles, shall for the future be paid sixpence per mile ; also, that members' fee for attendance at Council meetings shall be a guinea per day. Mr Mbury, who has just arrived from Victoria, has been appointed second master of the South School, Oamaru. Dtjnedin, January 9. Tyson, the champion wrestler, was presented with a gold watch to-night by a number of friends. In pursuance of the determination of the Government to put a stop to free travelling by rail, the passes of the convicts who have been accustomed to proceed to their work by train Shave been stopped. Mr Caldwell is not likely to let the matter rest here. A race for £4O a side takes place on Forbury Park course on Saturday, between Mr Sam Mercer's Te Kooti and Mr H. Taggart's Tifflea. The regatta to be held at Henley, on the Taieri river, next week, promises to he a great eucoess. The Canterbury Rowing Club has intimated that it will contest the challenge fours and the Ladies' Plate. Entries are also expected from Southland. A lud named Charles Power, fifteen years of age, was to day committed for trial on a charge of forging the signature of the publisher of the " Daily Times." A deputation from the Harbor Board will wait upon the Attorney-General to-morrow morning to endeavor to get an answer to a question they put*.to the Hon. Mr Macandrew when they waited upon him, and to which they have been aeekingto .elicit an answer by correspondence ■during the p&st two months. The Board had agreed to forego tho reclamation of eighty acres of the harbor in consideration of being allowed to reclaim forty acres along the Port Chalmers railway line. From something which occurred they doubted if the forty acres wonld be Crowngranted to the Board after reclamation. The Board h*ve been trying for two months to get Mr MacamSrew to answer the question. The first meeting of the newly appointed Harbor Board was held to-day. Mr W. H. IReynolds was appointed chairman till February, •when a new Board will be again elected. The total revenue of the Board for tlu last four and a half years, including £250,000 borrowed TOoney, was £322,786, and the expenditure .£240,540, leaving a balance of £82,245. The revenue for the last nine months was £17,574, and the expenditure £15,8*7. Mr Donald Eeid has declined to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for a seat on the Education Board. The commonage reserve at Waikouaiti, which the Land Board yesterday decided to sell, is 375 acres in extent, and was valued by one of the deputation that urged its sale at £20,000. The settlers at Tapanui arc moving for an inquiry into the action of the Land Board in granting to J. F. Herbert, of Ardmore Station, a second preemptive right on his run. The land in question is a piece of the Railway Reserve and is the very pick of it, being splendid barleygrowing land worth £6 or £8 per acre. The fettlers are incensed at Mr Basting's supporting the application, aa they say it was always adjourned until he canw from Wellington. They applaud Mr Green's action in opposing it some time ago. They assert that it has been ascertained, on l"gal authority, that the original preemptive right was taken out of a hundred wBtead of off the run. Since the formation of the railway commenced the reserve is worth about £3OOO. The weather has been very hot here and also in the country districts, dnrkg the past few days. Invercargill, January if. An inquest was held to-day atWallacetown on the body of a man named Redden, who was found dead in the road the other day. The verdict was that he was killed by tho wheel ot a bullock dray passing over his head.